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by bmer 8y ago
I wonder if the "third movement" will take a similar form to that held by many Rust projects: openly available source + structure to encourage and maintain contributions (mentorship programs, openly available discussion of design
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by bmer 8y ago
This comment raises a relevant question for me: where is my downvote button? I have been using HN for a while, but can only see an upvote button? In the past, facing unproductive comments, I have taken out the time to write up why I feel it
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by bmer 8y ago
Why must one do this step? I didn't quite understand it.
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by bmer 8y ago
I personally don't understand why compile times are such a concern, as the larger libraries I have worked with take less than a minute to compile. Are there programs that take hours to compile?
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by bmer 8y ago
Food. Medicine. Shelter. Thankfully, these are generally well-regulated in Canada. I am having a hard time thinking of other products which I would pay double for: * clothes: I already buy these at a thrift store * laptop/computer&#x2F
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by bmer 8y ago
What does it mean to "increase dividend" and "do stock repurchases" (finance noob here)?
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by bmer 8y ago
Some ideas: * multi-storey farms, with "JIT" food production: lots of our food production is wasted, what if we streamlined it, by locating food production centers closer to population centers? Homeless people/other "und
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by bmer 8y ago
> Once it becomes common enough the government closes the loophole and the creatives go back to finding the next scheme. Creatives? Do you mean criminals. I do believe it is necessary to socially stigmatize the crime, if we do want to im
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by bmer 8y ago
I think this is a pretty good tutorial for beginning to contribute to: http://numba.pydata.org/
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by bmer 8y ago
Canadian here, and I'd like to say: uh, no, thanks. Canada has a very different culture than the US. Examples: * compare types of crimes, and rates of crimes in major Canadian cities versus major US cities * existence of many "soc
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by bmer 8y ago
> Like, i can find filings from various "loved" open source companies that make the same argument, etc. Mind sharing?
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by bmer 8y ago
I am able to access the website just fine. All the images show up for me (Firefox 64.0.2).
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by bmer 8y ago
They do mention that it is less brittle (more flexible) than concrete. This would mean that less cracks might form, which would be very helpful in increasing rebar lifetime.
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by bmer 8y ago
What does EFIS stand for? And, could I get you started on the touch screen trend?
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by bmer 8y ago
Wouldn't be surprised if maintaining a crisp uniform is part of keeping up a sense of attention to detail, which again, would feed back into safety/efficiency.
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by bmer 8y ago
Donald Trump's presidency is weird because the "mainstream media" (a term used by many, regardless of their political spectrum) began to be treated as "real news" simply because Donald Trump was calling it "fak
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by bmer 8y ago
Wow, nice!
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by bmer 8y ago
Because they are a human being.
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by bmer 8y ago
Business friendly? I am not so sure. Maybe "large/existing business friendly"? After all, the private sector spends a lot of money on pressuring government to maintain existing monopolies/status quos, and the government
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by bmer 8y ago
Tom Holland is a historian? heh
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by bmer 8y ago
There are quite a few books that take this approach actually. One of my favourites: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781441960528
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by bmer 8y ago
If you are interested in learning more about this: https://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/DownldGF.html
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by bmer 8y ago
What makes you so sure? Euler's approach to problem solving is legendary for still being good pedagogical material today: http://eulerarchive.maa.org/hedi/index.html
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by bmer 8y ago
There might be some genuine errors, but the fact that you could manipulate differentials algebraically (a la Leibniz or Euler) is a big deal. A big deal that was later made concrete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-st
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by bmer 8y ago
> If you have specific suggestions about how to be more responsible than we have, please offer them and stop with the melodrama. HTTP and TCP/IP do not provoke "child like" wonder and curiosity, because they can be underst
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United States blocks Iran from fusion megaproject(sciencemag.org)
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by bmer 8y ago
Considering? Do it! It's your mom. She deserves it.
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by bmer 8y ago
Is it even a useful indication of that? Perhaps it's a more useful indication of how certain groups want a particular demographic (e.g. Trump supporters) to think?
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by bmer 8y ago
Status-goods marketing at its finest. I remember that this article gave me a lot of insight on the industry: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/expensive-chocolate-ec...
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by bmer 8y ago
The US actually has a bit of the opposite culture, in the old 'burbs. The neighbours come along to meet/greet the new family, usually with some treats.

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